![]() ![]() ![]() They let you smoke.Īnother place that’s really great is Alfie in Roppongi. It’s just a perfect sort of jazz bar that plays jazz LPs and sometimes they have live music. We also asked Jake to share some recommendations, of long-time haunts and places in the city that capture that Tokyo Vice 1999 vibe.įor a cool place to chill, Lady Jane in Shimokitazawa is still wonderful. Jake would like to recommend legendary Kabukicho host club Ai, but sadly it closed | Photo by Jake Adelstein He’s had a lot of, uh, adventures, which he’s chronicled in his memoir, Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan, on which the show is based. For several years he covered the goings-on of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Fourth District - which includes Kabukicho, the famous red-light district in Shinjuku. But how well does the show capture our beloved city? We chatted with the man himself about what Tokyo Vice gets right (a lot!), old haunts then and now, and where to find that Tokyo Vice feeling today.įirst, some background: Jake Adelstein is credited as having been the first foreign journalist to work at the Yomiuri Shimbun, the newspaper with the largest circulation in the world (and fictionalized as the Meicho Shimbun in the show). It’s set in 1999 and takes viewers deep into Tokyo’s underworld - think tattooed yakuza, host and hostess clubs, and plenty of dramatic scenes set in Kabukicho. TV drama Tokyo Vice is based on the real-life story of American-journalist-in-Japan Jake Adelstein. ![]()
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